Scientific Beta

Structured Retail Products: "The Singapore Exchange-backed index provider has launched a new suite of indices for the satellite sleeve of institutional investors' portfolios where the offering comprises trade tension and pandemic indices, enabling investors to take tactical bets on particular risks relating to trade tensions and pandemics."

Structured Retail Products 11/07/2022

 

"(...) The Singapore Exchange-backed index provider has launched a new suite of indices for the satellite sleeve of institutional investors' portfolios where the offering comprises trade tension and pandemic indices, enabling investors to take tactical bets on particular risks relating to trade tensions and pandemics. The objective of the satellite indices is to offer a robust conditional reaction or outperformance following shocks to these risks. For trade tensions, the French firm is providing trade war and trade peace indices that react positively and negatively to negative shocks to trade tensions, such as tariff announcements. For pandemics, the indices react positively and negatively to consequences of pandemic outbreaks, such as social distancing measures. ‘Like all Scientific Beta's indices, the pandemic and trade tension indices are based on academic research, notably on teleworkability and firm-level exposure to epidemic diseases for the pandemic indices and the tradability of goods and risks relating to trade policy in the case of the trade tension indices,’ said Noël Amenc, CEO of Scientific Beta. (...)"

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